Gaele Sobott
Gaele Sobott lives on Darug land, Western Sydney. Her publications include Colour Me Blue and My Longest Round. She was awarded a 2023 Australia Council Fellowship and a 2021 Varuna Writers Space fellowship. She was also shortlisted for the 2021 Queensland Poetry Awards Emerging Older Poets. She has written and directed internationally award-winning animated poems and is the founding director of Outlandish Arts.
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Commutare*
Run-down and on the verge of burnout, I will continue making art, imagining radically different futures during my best commutes, dancing, dog paddling upwards towards the clouds, doing breaststroke through the air, gliding. I pull into my driveway in Blacktown, the western suburbs where, as one young arts worker once said, we have the best sunsets.